Demand Technical Excellence
Just a few weeks ago we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the drafting of the Agile Manifesto. To celebrate the 10 year anniversary many of the original signatories along with some other agile...
View ArticleR&D and Innovation
There’s a great article in the online version of the Wall Street Journal titled “For RIM, Less Research Could Mean More Motion“. There are a couple of choice quotes from the article that parallel what...
View ArticleA year flying by
It’s hard to believe that we’re already in August. The year is literally flying by. It’s been some time since I’ve blogged, and it’s not because there isn’t plenty to blog about; it’s a matter of...
View ArticleAgile estimation and planning: Part 1
This article is the first of a series of that will talk about Agile estimation and planning. There is a great deal of information available in books and online describing Agile estimation techniques....
View ArticleAgile planning and estimating, Part 2
In the first article in this series we looked at absolute vs. relative estimation, and using an example saw how we could improve our estimation accuracy by applying relative estimation. In this article...
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Demanding Technical Excellence – One Year Later
A bit over a year ago I wrote about Demanding Technical Excellence . I’ve also written a bit about our Boot Camp program. We’ve recently just completed our 10th Boot Camp, and I thought I’d share some...
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Agile estimation and planning: Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we investigated why we use relative estimation as the foundation for our estimation and planning process. In this article we will look at a second aspect of Agile...
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Agile Estimation and Planning: Part 4
In this fourth and final article on agile estimation and planning we’ll look at planning. Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we looked at how relative estimation could help us improve our estimation...
View ArticleBaking a cake
One might ask: “What does baking a cake have to do with project delivery?” Actually the process of baking a cake is a great analogy to help understand a common practice which often results in projects...
View ArticleFixed Price Contracts – An Agile Perspective
I was drawn into a conversation about fixed priced contracts on LinkedIn. Since many people might not be monitoring the associated group on LinkedIn I thought it might be useful for me to cross post...
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Old habits die hard: the importance of testing
A colleague of mine asked a question on an internal forum today about a web-based Scrum tool. This isn’t an advertisement for any tool, so I’ll not mention the name. (Also, as anyone I’ve trained in...
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Project thinking pitfalls
Agile values tacit over explicit learning. It’s not that explicit learning isn’t valuable, it is; but it’s the tacit learning — where things become embedded and part of our nature — that is the most...
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Docker, mobile, and putting things in boxes
Docker and custom mobile application development are both very hot. Recently we decided to run a small internal project to gain some ‘sleeves-up’ insight into Docker as well as how we could deliver...
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Would you like a “little rice” with your container?
Sorry, it’s a pun(ny) title. If you haven’t gotten it already, you will soon (ahhh! stop it with the puns already!) My family, colleagues, and people who attend my Scrum training will all attest to my...
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Service discovery, segmented networks, and two pieces of Pi
In an earlier blog post I noted that I like things that just work. To this end one of the User Stories I related to the Library in a Box team was “As a mobile app user I would like the library to be...
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Demanding Technical Excellence – One Year Later
A bit over a year ago I wrote about Demanding Technical Excellence . I’ve also written a bit about our Boot Camp program. We’ve recently just completed our 10th Boot Camp, and I thought I’d share some...
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Agile estimation and planning: Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we investigated why we use relative estimation as the foundation for our estimation and planning process. In this article we will look at a second aspect of Agile...
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Agile Estimation and Planning: Part 4
In this fourth and final article on agile estimation and planning we’ll look at planning. Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we looked at how relative estimation could help us improve our estimation...
View ArticleBaking a cake
One might ask: “What does baking a cake have to do with project delivery?” Actually the process of baking a cake is a great analogy to help understand a common practice which often results in projects...
View ArticleFixed Price Contracts – An Agile Perspective
I was drawn into a conversation about fixed priced contracts on LinkedIn. Since many people might not be monitoring the associated group on LinkedIn I thought it might be useful for me to cross post...
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